Bookopoly

This challenge has been created as a way to get though your TBR, cut down your book buying and to save money.As the name suggests this challenge is modelled off the Monopoly game. Like with a real Monopoly board each square has a monetary value assigned — the amount has been decided by me and what I can budget for. For the reading challenge you don’t need to use the dice but rather move you piece around where every you like.

I will break down the different sections of the board and let you know what the challenges are for each.

House Properties
Each house colour represents a difference genre. Each book you finish adds a house to the board. The goal is to get a hotel.

Brown: Poetry

Light Blue: Contemporary Settings

Pink: Literary

Orange: Historical Fiction

Red: Fantasy

Yellow: Non-Fiction

Green: Classics

Blue: Anthologies/Short Story Collections

Hotels
To get a hotel you need get four houses on the one square; so read four books. Once you have a hotel on the square you cannot add anymore. You can still read the book but it would count to the challenge.

Stations
These will be the four readthons I will join in throughout the year. When I know which ones I’m participating in I will add them.

Tax Squares
These mean you have to read a book over 500 pages. You can use it as many times as you’d like but they don’t count towards you’re property challenge.

Each month I’ll read one book that relates to a chance card and one that relates to the community chest cards.

Challenges crossed out have been completed

Chance Cards
The chance cards are topics that can help if I’m feeling stuck with what to read. The cards include:

Free pass to buy a book

Free pick

One word title

Get out a jail free card

New release

New to you author

Own Voices book

Stand alone

Book with your favourite colour on it

Cover buy

Next in a series

Read a Fairy loot book

Read a research book

Translated fiction

Debut book

Gothic novel

Community Chest
16 books I’ve brought because of booktube/bookstagram/university

If the book fits one of the genre’s I’ve chosen they can count towards adding a house or hotel to the board

Hope Farm by Peggy Few

Tower of Dawn by Sarah J. Maas

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

The Rose & The Dagger by Renee Ahdieh

The Nix by Nathan Hill

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Forest of a Thousand Lanterns by Julie C. Dao

Why Homer Matter by Adam Nicolson

The Tidal Zone by Sarah Moss

Traitor’s Blade by Sebastien de Castell

The Invention of Angela Carter by Edmund Gordon

Daphnis and Chloe by Longus

Angela Carter’s Book of Fairy Tales by Angela Carter

Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff

Arcadia by Iain Pears

Daisy in Chains by Sharon Bolton

Waterworks and Electric Company
I’ve done this once slightly different than what Elena and Janet have done. For me, these two squares represent my other two reading challenges on the year; The Goodreads Reading Challenge and Around The Year in 52 Books Challenge. This way I can keep on track with my other challenges for the year.

Free Parking
I do love buying books so this squares allows me to buy 1 new book a month. For me I know that it’s I go cold turkey on my book buying come July I will go on a book buying spree and end up with another 15 books.

Jail
So in case I go on my book buying spree that doesn’t related to free parking or a free book token from the chance cards, I go to the jail square.

To get out of jail, I’ll need to read that book I brought straight away; I buy it I read it. If it’s a book in a series that I’m not up to yet, I can read a book that someone else has picked for me. So basically if I go on the book buying spree and but 15 books, I need to read those 15 before I can get on the with the challenge. These books will not count to towards any of the above challenges